st: RE: RE: RE: -indexplot- updated for Stata 8 on SSC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Cox [mailto:n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 9:31 AM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: RE: RE: -indexplot- updated for Stata 8 on SSC
>
>
> Nick Winter
>
> > > The advent of Stata 8, and in particular its major
> > > new graphics functionality, has drastic implications
> > > for most previous user-written graphics add-ons.
> > > Many are superseded by new commands, or made obsolete
> > > by new features of new commands, and so must be consigned
> > > to the oblivion of history, together with MS-DOS,
> > > Rubik's cubes, Monkees albums, hula hoops and zoot suits
> > > -- except of course if you are using Stata 7 or some
> > other previous
> > > version.
> >
> > I can't find the place in the manual where it says I have
> > to wear a zoot
> > suit to use Stata 7. Maybe my results will come out better if I do?
>
> Of course not. It is some of the user-written add-ons
> that are obsolete for Stata 8 users and the reference
> was primarily directed at some of my own programs. Several were
> just working around some limitation of -graph-, and as
> said are now superseded or obsolete.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
I was, of course, kidding :-)
Nick
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